Andrew Bird Quotes
I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.
Quotes to Explore
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I am not honest.
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I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
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You can grow apart from people very quickly.
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I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second.
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It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
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Oh," she said, in a very different way. "Well. Thanks for my part in the compliment. Naturally I'd love to be watched and controlled, but I think I may be washing my hair that day.
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True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.
